Also known as B-6512
Where: California (36.0° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 114.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Temblor Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Sandstone interbedded with silty sandstone of basal Temblor Formation. From faunizone A (for that reason assigned an early Miocene age).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, coarse-grained, brown sandstone and poorly lithified, gray, blue, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Probably the same as Stewarts Locality #2. Collected by Adegoke. Collections reposited in UCMP.
Primary reference: O.S. Adegoke. 1969. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 80 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44891: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
""Spisula" (Mactromeris) albaria" = Mactromeris albaria
""Spisula" (Mactromeris) albaria" = Mactromeris albaria Conrad 1848 clam | |
Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam | |
Anadara sp., "Anadara (Anadara) osmonti" = Anadara osmonti, "Anadara (Scapharca) obispoana" = Scapharca (Scapharca) obispoana
"Anadara (Anadara) osmonti" = Anadara osmonti Dall 1909 ark
"Anadara (Scapharca) obispoana" = Scapharca (Scapharca) obispoana Conrad 1857 clam |